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Originally Posted by pdx rick
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Ah hell, we all know that the Dems don't care about the US.
We're the ones who are tying to ensure that everyone has healthcare - not just the people who can afford it. And we're not the ones who think that pregnancy is a pre-existing condition.

Your turn. coffee
Healthcare should not be an entitlement. The Fed should never have gotten into the health insurance business. Look at what Obamacare has done to premiums, and quality. It should be handled state to state. I should not be responsible for somebody in California.

Also, why the hell am I paying for Planned Parenthood? Stop all federal funding and let the patients use their healthcare, I mean the law says that they have to have it, so they should be able to see the Planned Parenthood people.


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Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by Ma_Republican
...Imagine if the Republicans had done anything like this to Obama?

  • Burned BAMZ!!! in effigy
  • Made a pact to make BAMZ!!! a 'one-term' president
  • Suggested that BAMZ!!! wasn't born in the United States (Hawaii is part of the US for your information - and not 'just an island,' but a chain of islands)
  • Posted images of BAMZ!!! with a bone through his nose and in African dress
  • Called his wife 'Moosechelle' and suggested that she was a man

Never heard me treat that person as anything other than with respect. The day he left office was the day I could stop lying. For the record, whether he was born in the US or not didn't matter. He was elected, twice, therefore he was POTUS. There is a lesson in there for the Dems somewhere, like maybe in America we accept the outcomes of the elections instead of undermining the country in the Democrats version of a hissy fit. If my children had ever acted like your party is acting, I would have beaten them to within an inch of their lives. For the record, I actually spanked them twice in their lives, so it gives you and idea of how much respect I have for your party and the members of that party right now. A bunch of spoiled brats who have gotten their way too often.


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Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
"....who is not aware that all liberals are anarchists??"
Rick, the anarchists only show up at liberal events because they know they won't get shot.
They have nothing but contempt for liberals, okay?
That's straight from the mouths of the anarchists themselves.
They only like the fact that liberals draw numbers.
They're parasites, and Tim has no inkling of the concept of a "state controlled opposition" and the reasons WHY a controlled opposition is important to a police state.

They control the narrative, so they need to present something that feeds Tim's confirmation bias and reward seeking behavior while justifying the enormous amount of privilege (note I didn't say WHITE privilege, just PRIVILEGE) that allows him to elevate himself above the fray like a good Ayn Rand follower should.
I acknowledge that anarchy resides on the left-side of the political spectrum. Just as I acknowledge that CONSERVATIVE Democrats owned slaves, fought to keep slaves, started the KKK and wrote Jim Crow laws. Hmm

It's an ugly Democratic past realty, but fortunately for us Dems today, most CONSERVATIVES are now Republicans and have been since 1964. smile


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Originally Posted by Ma_Republican
Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by Ma_Republican
Ah hell, we all know that the Dems don't care about the US.
We're the ones who are tying to ensure that everyone has healthcare - not just the people who can afford it. And we're not the ones who think that pregnancy is a pre-existing condition.

Your turn. coffee
Healthcare should not be an entitlement.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Healthcare in my opinion is a birthright - just like breathing clean, healthy air, or drinking clean, healthy water, and should not ever be limited to those who can simply afford healthcare - clean air or clean water.


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Originally Posted by Ma_Republican
Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by Ma_Republican
...Imagine if the Republicans had done anything like this to Obama?

  • Burned BAMZ!!! in effigy
  • Made a pact to make BAMZ!!! a 'one-term' president
  • Suggested that BAMZ!!! wasn't born in the United States (Hawaii is part of the US for your information - and not 'just an island,' but a chain of islands)
  • Posted images of BAMZ!!! with a bone through his nose and in African dress
  • Called his wife 'Moosechelle' and suggested that she was a man

Never heard me treat that person as anything other than with respect.
Never wrote "you." I was responding to: "...Imagine if the Republicans had done anything like this to Obama? "


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OK Tim I call poopoo

Why would anyone characterize their position with intentional misuse and improper citation of legal sources? I know why but apparently you don't care.

Not only are we not in a State of War but the Law was repealed.

So please can you make your argument without the felonious misuse of a repealed law?


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sacrificed a US Ambassador in the name of political correctness, then arrested some poor guy on trumped up charges, to deflect the truth
No one sacrificed anyone for political correctness. Amb Stevens was not sent against his will to Libya. He insisted he go and he insisted he not have Gen Hamm's security detail not once but twice. At least get the facts right.

al Kattah was not some poor guy but an active militia member who publicly recounted his participation (or lack of) in the attack and the motivations of some of the attackers. Among the motivations he stated some of the attackers were inspired by a video, other attackers had different inspirations. While he was arrested for his role in the attack, I do not believe he will be convicted based on evidence in public domain.

What truth is anyone deflecting? What I know is you can not accept the truth, so you deflect.

Certainly there are some sour grapes, but for God's sake man, the Russians attempted to corrupt the election. Now for the reasons. At no time in the last 60 years have the Russians been in a position where any campaign had people with close ties to Russia in the campaign. It is not sour grapes to ask the questions with so many people having intimate connections to, not just Russians, but to the very highest levels of the Russian government (Putin). There is even one who had connections to not just Putin, but Guccifer and Assange. If you want to sweep that under the rug, then perhaps you should review the Constitution and read a little America history.

Not sour grapes but concern for the very integrity of our democracy.


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Originally Posted by rporter314
mNot sour grapes but concern for the very integrity of our democracy.
For me, I'm skittish about this new guy because the last Republican and his gang that didn't win the popular vote abandoned any thing remotely similar to their small government heritage, voting for more spending, lower taxes, new entitlements, by removing any rules that previous Congresses had lived with to create the assemblage and culture of fiscal discipline.

There was never an ISIS until we invaded sovereign Iraq because 15 of 19 9/11 highjackers were Saudis. Then, to make matters even worse, L Paul Bremmer fired all of the Iraqi police and military three months after our invasion.

Those tactically trained men sure did not go open falafel carts.

With Donald J Trump, I see a much worse redux of the W Bush years that us Liberals will have to fix and clean-up again. Hmm


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If my children had ever acted like your party is acting, I would have beaten them to within an inch of their lives.
But you're perfectly okay with the way your party acted for the entire eight years of the Obama administration?
Did I just hear your president squealing about obstructionism? After 8 years of near treasonous abuse was heaped onto President Obama and record use of the fillibuster by Mitch McConnell? Did you think Democrats were going to roll over and support Donald Trump just because he won a dicey electoral college victory, lost the popular vote by 3 Million, and put all that racist hatred behind us as though it never happened?
Does it mean nothing to you that the KKK and every Neo-Nazi hate group in America threw their money and votes behind Donald Trump?

So now your panties are all in a twist because we aren't showing your guy the respect he deserves. When he has done absolutely nothing to earn that respect. Really. Betsy DeVoss? Ben Carson? Jeff Sessions? Steve Bannon? Getting rid of environmental regulations that were put there for a good reason? Hiring his family? Hiding his tax returns? Using his office to increase his fortune? Promising a great healthcare plan but planning to take it away from millions upon millions of people to cut the taxes of the wealthiest Americans? And you're worried that a few cents of your tax dollars might get used in a way you don't approve of? To perhaps help save the life of a child in California? Get over yourself, Tim. There isn't a day goes by anymore that I'm not laughing at the total incompetence of this entire Republican run government. And you say we have no sense of humor.
Donald Trump is a joke. And we are going to laugh him right out of office and watch the Republican brand sink right along with him.

The only people being terrorized by the Democratic Party are the Republicans who are going to lose elections to them in the mid terms.



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I see a much worse redux of the W Bush years that us Liberals will have to fix and clean-up again.
Hey...it's what we do. It's like Yin chasing Yang, they destroy the economy, we fix it. They start wars, we finish them and take care of the survivors. They ruin lives, we try to improve them. They destroy our foriegn relations, we repair them....and on and on it goes.

But they think we're the terrorists.

Tell me again, Tim, about all the good things Republicans are doing for us? About how the Iran and Iraq wars have made us safer. How making the wealthy much wealthier will help hungry children sleep at night, how making the poor and elderly choose between food and the medicine that keeps them alive makes life better for us.

People are going to bed terrified tonight but it isn't my party causing the fear. It's yours.


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